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Dine at the Bar

Great Desserts

Notable Chef

Open Kitchens / Watch the Chef

Private Dining/Party Space

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Full Bar

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Not Accepted

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This venue is closed.

Before envelope-pushing pastry chef Will Goldfarb teamed up with
Manhattan entrepreneur Richard Perl, you’d never expect phrases like Michel Cluizel chocolate and sodium alginate
to appear in the same sentence. But the twain might
actually meet at Perl’s Cluizel
boutique at ABC Carpet & Home. As at the now-shuttered
Room4Dessert, where Goldfarb served whimsies named Virtuality and You
Sunk My Battleship, the chef will concoct inventive desserts at the
seven-stool bar, open till midnight Thursday through Saturday. Cluizel
chocolate is the unifying theme in dishes like Indonesian-vanilla ice
cream with 85 percent–cacao chocolate bits and American sturgeon caviar
(pictured), and warm chocolate bubbles with espresso Jell-O and fresh
milk foam. Goldfarb has stocked the shelves with new products, too,
like Terzi coffees from Bologna, his WillPowder line of chemicals for
the home cook (from glycerin flakes to methylcellulose), and baked
goods from Seth Greenberg, son of William Jr., and heir to the
Manhattan fudge-brownie throne.
— Robin Raisfeld and Rob Patronite